But pressed yesterday on the demand for extra funding, Ms Ferguson said she questioned the arithmetic in the document. "I've certainly been impressed by the scale of the figures suggested - easy to do when you don't have to make tough, sometimes unpopular decisions about prioritising government spending," said Ms Ferguson.

Sounds like "back to the drawing board" for the Arts in Scotland. Interesting that 1% of the budget for the Arts has been seen as too much. For comparison, for England I calculated that it was around 0.5% and in Estonia around 3.0%.

Scottish Opera presents particular problems, as there has to be a question whether a region with 5m people can pay for world class artists.

Cultural body was ‘irrelevant waste of money’by PHIL MILLER for the Scotland Herald

Duncan McGhie, who left his post at the national companies in December 2004, has also suggested that Scottish Opera should look to funding from England if the Scottish Executive continues its current "unsustainable" levels of funding.

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